This year's Tax Day brings startling numbers about how tax loopholes allowed General Electric to avoid paying billions in taxes.

If you want a story about the illogic that rules Washington, look no further than this.

Does the federal budget affect lunchtime for the kids in your neighborhood? You might be surprised at the answer.

It's that time of year. Taxes are due on April 15. But where do our tax dollars actually go?  Here's the answer.

Today we released The President's 2015 Budget in Pictures, a series of colorful charts telling the story of the priorities in the president's budget.

How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More 

President Obama today released his $3.9 trillion fiscal 2015 budget proposal, a plan that includes new manufacturing institutes, job training, and the president’s signature initiative of universal pre-kindergarten education. Here are the highlgihts of what the budget contains.

Yesterday Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a major speech at the Pentagon, and a bold headline ran in The New York Times announcing that the Pentagon would shrink the Army to pre-World War II levels. While the speech did announce cutbacks in a number of military programs, the Pentagon isn’t planning any major reductions in spending any time soon.

A few glimmers of hope came from Washington in recent months. Lawmakers agreed on a bipartisan budget resolution. 

Yesterday we published your priorities for the State of the Union – what you told us, by social media and e-mail, that you wanted the president to tackle in his speech.